Food Network needs a major overhaul

Far too much of their programming is reruns. I can only think of a few series that show new episodes (Beat Bobby Flay, The Kitchen, Worst Cooks in America, Baking Championship, Kids Baking Championship, Food Truck Race, Next Food Network Star, Guys Grocery Games, Chopped).

I also get really sick of how every holiday turns into an excuse to focus on the food for that holiday. This week they're showing hardly anything that doesn't have to do with chocolate.

It'd be sweet if they had a program dedicated to fish and seafood, also one on vegetarian/vegan cooking. Maybe even one about using instapots and slow cookers. How about another dedicated to Asian Food?

4. I get irritated with all the "competition" shows

I want to be educated about cooking and food and couldn't care less how I might combine liver with chocolate pudding. (seriously - from this week's Chopped.) And don't get me started on Guy Fieri!!! He annoys me almost as much as tRump.

16. Good Eats Reloaded isn't Food Network

17. "Good Eats!" +++++++++++++++

I want the theme song for a ring tone... Alton is kind of a dick but I like his explanation of the why's and wherefores of cooking... Kinda pulls it all together like Rachel's explaining politics... But she is not a dick... well of course she can't be a ........ you know what I mean..
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30. I love Good Eats, too.

6. I completely agree!

The only “new” show I’ve seen lately The Kitchen. I could tell because there was a mention of a current event. Other than that, I’m tired of seeing marathon episodes of things like Guy’s Grocery Games and Chopped.

8. Most people do their best creative work under some kind of restraint,

Time, budget, form, medium, whatever. If it MUST be a contest, get someone to judge a week worth of "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems" meals.

12. I honestly don't know why they even bother with "The Next food Network Star" anymore.

They used to have their own cooking shows, but now, they seem to air a couple of episodes then they're gone, never to be seen again. Oh, they may show up occasionally as a judge on "Guy's Grocery Games" or that stupid show that Alton Brown hosted with challenges that forced chefs to operate a blender by pedaling a bicycle or some such nonsense.

I started watching more of The Cooking Channel, but even that channel is migrating more towards hosts visiting restaurants that offer The World's Biggest Taco or other such places rather than instructional shows. I'll just stick to YouTube, I guess.

19. When Food network first started

You could send a stamped self addressed envelope to your favorite show and they would mail you the recipes for the current week's episode. I always did that for Two Hot tamales, got lots of excellent recipes that way.

26. Tired of all the competition, tired of kids cooking (LAME).

I get sick of chocolate too, but a big fat NO to more fish and seafood. "Top Chef" and "Chopped" rely on it too much. I can't eat either! "Top Chef" is worse; one team did appetizers a couple weeks ago that were ALL fish or seafood! It's maddening.

I would like to see more straight cooking shows, and maybe more vegetarian cooking (minus Portobello mushrooms).